JERMYN, Robert (1601-1623), of Rushbrooke, Suff.

Jermyn received a typical gentleman’s education, briefly attending Cambridge, and then obtaining a licence on 31 [sic] June 1618 for three years’ foreign travel with his cousin, Robert Poley*. APC, 1618-19, p. 201; Vis. Suff. ed. Howard, i. 295-6. Presumably summoned home to sit in the third Jacobean Parliament, he was returned for Penryn on the interest of his grandfather, Sir William Killigrew I, even though he was still under-age, and therefore ineligible to stand for election. Jermyn spoke once in the Commons, arguing on 18 Apr. that the controversial issue of tobacco imports should be settled by the Privy Council. He also attended a meeting of the bill committee concerned with lighthouses, although was not formally appointed to scrutinize this measure. CD 1621, iii. 10; C.R. Kyle, ‘Attendance Lists’, PPE 1604-48 ed. Kyle, 189. Jermyn was apparently staying at his grandfather’s London home when he died in December 1623 during an outbreak of ‘purple fever’. He was buried in the local parish church, St. Margaret Lothbury. No will or administration grant has been found. Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, ii. 531; GL, ms 4346/1 (unfol.).